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HB3909 • 2025

Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place.

Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Hickland | Zwiener | Alders | Simmons | Dyson
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place.

Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  4. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  5. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  6. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    House adopts conference committee report

  7. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#4143

  8. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  9. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    House adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  10. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  11. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate grants request for conf comm-reported

  12. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate appoints conferees-reported

  13. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Conf. Comm. Report distributed

  14. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate adopts conference committee report

  15. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  16. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  17. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House refuses to concur in Senate amendments

  18. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House requests conference committee

  19. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House appoints conferees

  20. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House refuses to concur-reported

  21. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House requests conference committee-reported

  22. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House appoints conferees-reported

  23. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate grants request for conference comm.

  24. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate appoints conferees

  25. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Conference committee report filed

  26. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage as amended reported

  27. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments distributed

  28. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  29. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  30. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  31. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  32. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  33. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  34. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  35. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  36. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  37. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  38. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  39. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  40. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  41. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  42. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  43. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  44. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  45. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  46. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  47. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  48. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to State Affairs

  49. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  50. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  51. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  52. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1843

  53. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  54. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  55. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  56. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  57. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  58. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1741

  59. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  60. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  61. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  62. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  63. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  64. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  65. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  66. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  67. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  68. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  69. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  70. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  71. 2025-03-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  72. 2025-03-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Elections

  73. 2025-03-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 3909 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 3909

AN ACT

relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling

place.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 61.014, Election Code, is amended by

amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as

follows:

(a)
Except as permitted by Sections 61.012 and 61.013, a
[
A
]

person may not use a wireless communication device
within a room in

which voting is taking place
[
within 100 feet of a voting station
].

(e)

The secretary of state shall require a presiding judge

to post a notice that states the prohibition on the use of a

wireless communication device in a prominent and reasonably visible

location outside of a room in which voting is taking place.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3909 was passed by the House on May 8,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 8, 2 present, not

voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to

H.B. No. 3909 on May 30, 2025, and requested the appointment of a

conference committee to consider the differences between the two

houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report

on H.B. No. 3909 on June 1, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 127,

Nays 9, 1 present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3909 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays

4; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference

committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and

that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.

3909 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

__________________

Governor